WEBVTT - Weirdhouse Cinema Rewind: Horror Rises From the Tomb 0:00:04.559 --> 0:00:08.760 Hey, welcome to Weird House Cinema. Rewind. This is Rob Lamb. 0:00:09.039 --> 0:00:12.319 I'm going to reair an older episode of Weird House 0:00:12.320 --> 0:00:15.600 Cinema here today and it's one that we have rerun before. 0:00:15.640 --> 0:00:19.680 It is the Paul Nashy film Horror Rises from the Tomb, 0:00:20.640 --> 0:00:26.439 also starred Helga Linney. This is a wonderful nineteen seventy 0:00:26.440 --> 0:00:29.160 three Spanish horror film, and you know, I just had 0:00:29.160 --> 0:00:32.280 the opportunity to see it once more on the big 0:00:32.320 --> 0:00:37.159 screen at the Plaza Theater here in Atlanta. This was 0:00:37.200 --> 0:00:40.800 part of the Shane Morton Presents series. I'm to understand 0:00:40.840 --> 0:00:43.720 he's going to do more of these, showcasing a lot 0:00:43.760 --> 0:00:49.040 of international horror films over the months and months ahead. 0:00:49.080 --> 0:00:50.440 I think he said he's going to do like four 0:00:50.479 --> 0:00:52.560 of these a year. So if you're Atlanta based, check 0:00:52.640 --> 0:00:54.880 this out. If you're Atlanta based or just visiting the 0:00:55.440 --> 0:00:58.680 Atlanta area, be sure to check out the Plaza Theater 0:00:59.080 --> 0:01:02.440 historic theater here in Atlanta. They do so much great programming. 0:01:03.120 --> 0:01:05.720 I mean it's almost too much. Every week. I'm like, 0:01:05.720 --> 0:01:07.759 oh man, there's like two or three things I'd love 0:01:07.800 --> 0:01:11.280 to go to. And you know, generally I'm pushing it 0:01:11.360 --> 0:01:13.560 to try and make it out to one. But hey, 0:01:13.600 --> 0:01:17.240 there's nothing beat seeing a classic film on the big screen. 0:01:17.720 --> 0:01:21.039 And yeah, Horror Rises from the Tomb, in my opinion, 0:01:21.160 --> 0:01:23.399 is quite excellent. This is a lot of fun. So 0:01:23.480 --> 0:01:26.479 let's dive right into this older discussion, and I will 0:01:26.480 --> 0:01:30.199 add one more caveat. At the time, Joe and I had, 0:01:30.400 --> 0:01:35.720 I think largely just discovered Paul Nashi for ourselves, and 0:01:35.800 --> 0:01:38.880 at this point our esteem for Paul nash news works 0:01:39.120 --> 0:01:43.200 has risen quite a lot, risen from the Tomb even so, 0:01:43.880 --> 0:01:45.720 this is one that I've often thought about. It's like, man, 0:01:45.720 --> 0:01:49.320 I'd love to just do this episode again, so much 0:01:49.320 --> 0:01:53.120 more I'd like to say about Paul Nashi and this 0:01:53.160 --> 0:01:56.120 particular film. But anyway, this is the older episode. Still 0:01:56.120 --> 0:01:59.440 a lot of great content in here. We've covered other 0:01:59.520 --> 0:02:02.760 Paul nan she films since this episode came out, and 0:02:03.040 --> 0:02:06.080 I guarantee you we will do more Paul Nashy films 0:02:06.120 --> 0:02:09.560 in the future. All right, let's venture into the Tomb. 0:02:13.880 --> 0:02:16.919 Welcome to stuff to blow your mind. A production of iHeartRadio. 0:02:17.919 --> 0:02:21.840 So I just finished rewatching it and made it to 0:02:21.880 --> 0:02:25.840 the end where there's a really good stunt fall I 0:02:25.840 --> 0:02:28.079 don't know if you caught that when the headless body 0:02:28.120 --> 0:02:30.839 of the Warlock rolls down the steps and it's it's 0:02:31.040 --> 0:02:34.120 obviously not a dummy, it's a stunt man. Oh yeah, 0:02:34.280 --> 0:02:36.679 headless suit. He's getting the legs going all of this, 0:02:36.800 --> 0:02:38.160 so we obviously can't see. 0:02:38.400 --> 0:02:42.760 I think the effects in this movie are better than 0:02:42.760 --> 0:02:47.320 they should have been in some regards, like I like 0:02:47.440 --> 0:02:50.880 the scenes where there's the lifting of the head. You know, 0:02:51.280 --> 0:02:54.320 I'm something of a well, I wouldn't say I'm a 0:02:54.360 --> 0:02:57.320 kind of sewer, but I put I pay a lot 0:02:57.360 --> 0:03:00.560 of attention whenever there's a beheading and there's head being 0:03:00.560 --> 0:03:03.079 handled in a film, because I'm always curious, like, how 0:03:03.080 --> 0:03:05.840 good is it going to look? How are they going 0:03:05.919 --> 0:03:07.280 to do it? Are they going to do the dummy head? 0:03:07.320 --> 0:03:10.600 Are they going to do like, you know, shooting an 0:03:10.639 --> 0:03:12.880 actual head the right way and making it look like 0:03:12.919 --> 0:03:16.120 it's detached. And they did a mix here that mostly 0:03:16.160 --> 0:03:20.880 worked pretty well. I've seen it look rougher in more 0:03:20.919 --> 0:03:21.960 expensive movies. 0:03:22.280 --> 0:03:25.000 Well, it depends what you mean by well. I do agree, though, 0:03:25.040 --> 0:03:28.600 I found I think literally every scene with the severed 0:03:28.639 --> 0:03:30.000 head hilarious. 0:03:31.160 --> 0:03:34.839 Well, it is inherent. Yeah, there's something inherently hilarious about it, too, 0:03:35.920 --> 0:03:38.320 especially given the seriousness with which it is approached. 0:03:38.600 --> 0:03:39.960 Did we already start the episode? 0:03:40.000 --> 0:03:40.200 Hey? 0:03:40.280 --> 0:03:41.240 Hello, are you listening? 0:03:41.320 --> 0:03:43.200 Oh hey, welcome to Weird House Cinema. 0:03:43.360 --> 0:03:46.320 My name is Rod Lamb and I'm Joe McCormick. 0:03:46.520 --> 0:03:49.480 Yeah. We were just talking a little bit about beheadings 0:03:49.480 --> 0:03:54.920 and movies disembodied heads, the living head off the beheaded, 0:03:54.960 --> 0:03:57.960 because that's what we have in today's film, in nineteen 0:03:58.000 --> 0:04:01.520 seventy three's Horror Rises from the Tomb Rob. 0:04:01.560 --> 0:04:05.640 I feel like this is the third or fourth early 0:04:05.800 --> 0:04:10.720 seventies Spanish horror movie you have picked. What What's got 0:04:10.760 --> 0:04:13.040 you going down this road? How'd you end up in 0:04:13.760 --> 0:04:14.880 in seventies Spain? 0:04:15.480 --> 0:04:19.400 Oh, there's just something about this, this whole realm of 0:04:20.000 --> 0:04:22.840 horror filmmaking. There's just some really there's some great stuff here, 0:04:22.880 --> 0:04:24.640 and there's a lot of great stuff that I haven't seen. 0:04:25.200 --> 0:04:28.080 So it's exciting to me because the film we're talking 0:04:28.080 --> 0:04:30.400 about here to today, Horror Rises from the Tomb he 0:04:30.520 --> 0:04:34.640 is considered a classic of seventies Spanish horror, Like this 0:04:34.680 --> 0:04:37.760 is a this film is a big deal. So I 0:04:37.800 --> 0:04:41.440 had not seen it previously, so it was it was. 0:04:41.440 --> 0:04:43.000 It was one I was it was interested in. I 0:04:43.040 --> 0:04:45.120 was reading the synopsis and I was like, all right, 0:04:45.120 --> 0:04:48.279 as long as this one sort of stays within the parameters, 0:04:48.800 --> 0:04:51.039 this could be the film for this week. And lo 0:04:51.160 --> 0:04:52.960 and behold it was. So. 0:04:53.080 --> 0:04:55.440 I didn't know anything about this movie going in, but 0:04:55.560 --> 0:04:58.640 I was. I was certainly tempted when you when you 0:04:58.720 --> 0:05:01.400 shared with me, I think a user review you came 0:05:01.440 --> 0:05:05.520 across on some website that essentially made it seem like 0:05:05.560 --> 0:05:08.240 this may in fact have also been an ego trip 0:05:08.279 --> 0:05:10.360 for a particular writer slash actor. 0:05:10.800 --> 0:05:13.839 Yeah, there are accounts of Paul Nashy, the star and 0:05:13.880 --> 0:05:18.359 writer here and in his his his ego. I have 0:05:18.480 --> 0:05:21.760 seen that written about, and yeah, this is I ran 0:05:21.800 --> 0:05:27.000 across this particular write up on Letterboxed letterboxed dot com. 0:05:27.040 --> 0:05:29.160 That's l E T T E R b o x D. 0:05:29.720 --> 0:05:32.680 That's a great website to go to if you want 0:05:32.680 --> 0:05:34.800 listings of films, lists of films, and hey, we are 0:05:34.800 --> 0:05:37.480 on there. We have an account under the user named 0:05:37.520 --> 0:05:39.880 weird House, and you can go there and see all 0:05:39.920 --> 0:05:43.040 the films that we've talked about in a nice visual display. 0:05:43.080 --> 0:05:46.480 And I also have links to the podcast episodes on there. 0:05:46.760 --> 0:05:50.440 But anyway, this particular review, Yeah, a user by the 0:05:50.520 --> 0:05:54.320 name of their name is spelled like lou l o u, 0:05:54.480 --> 0:05:56.880 but then it says rhymes with Wao, so I guess 0:05:56.920 --> 0:06:02.200 it's Loo Loo. Right. When Paul Nashi wrote this movie 0:06:02.240 --> 0:06:07.120 about medieval Paul Nashi getting decapitated because of alleged Satanist practices, 0:06:07.520 --> 0:06:10.360 he knew it was really about the executioners being jealous 0:06:10.360 --> 0:06:13.840 of medieval Paul Nashi's good looks slash him being irresistible 0:06:13.839 --> 0:06:16.640 to women everywhere. When it came time for Paul Nashi 0:06:16.720 --> 0:06:18.799 to write a hero into the story to save everyone 0:06:18.839 --> 0:06:21.400 and their wives from the clutches of medieval Paul Nashi, 0:06:21.640 --> 0:06:24.880 he conjured up dreaming present day hunk Paul Nashi. He 0:06:25.000 --> 0:06:28.039 knew that even if dreamy Paul Nashi wouldn't be able 0:06:28.080 --> 0:06:30.719 to defeat medieval Paul Nashi, he would at least be 0:06:30.800 --> 0:06:34.479 recognized as the hero Dreamy Paul Nashi really is. 0:06:34.880 --> 0:06:37.760 I'd say that's about right. So this movie was not 0:06:37.920 --> 0:06:40.840 directed by Paul Nashi, but written by Paul Nashi and 0:06:40.880 --> 0:06:44.520 starring Paul Nashi in at least three different roles. 0:06:44.800 --> 0:06:48.720 That's right now, I think that I would critique. This 0:06:49.960 --> 0:06:52.960 review is hilarious and I love it, but it's not 0:06:53.080 --> 0:06:57.400 one accurate in terms of what we get out of 0:06:57.400 --> 0:06:59.559 the Paul Nashi's and we'll get into that the different 0:06:59.560 --> 0:07:03.360 Paul nash characters. There's really one dreamy Paul Nashy character 0:07:03.480 --> 0:07:05.839 in this film, and he's pretty magical. 0:07:06.080 --> 0:07:10.160 So I was watching this movie on a streaming service 0:07:10.280 --> 0:07:13.720 that is supported by AD breaks, and I was deeply 0:07:13.800 --> 0:07:18.120 intrigued by the fact that the movie has major themes 0:07:18.200 --> 0:07:22.400 of a floating severed warlockhead dripping neck blood on things, 0:07:22.440 --> 0:07:25.480 including like a painting in the process of being painted, 0:07:26.040 --> 0:07:28.560 and so we'd have the head, it would dribble some 0:07:28.640 --> 0:07:31.080 neck blood, and then we would cut to commercial and 0:07:31.120 --> 0:07:35.320 the commercials are all for paper towels and other cleaning products. 0:07:35.840 --> 0:07:39.440 Is this a coincidence or has AD targeting got this good, 0:07:39.600 --> 0:07:43.160 like they can detect the contents of the film and 0:07:43.240 --> 0:07:44.680 adjust ads accordingly. 0:07:45.520 --> 0:07:47.880 I don't know. I mean, you know, when stains are 0:07:47.880 --> 0:07:50.720 at their worst, such as from dripping heads, you need 0:07:50.960 --> 0:07:52.240 a quality paper towel. 0:07:55.240 --> 0:07:57.520 The other thing about the streaming service that I thought 0:07:57.560 --> 0:07:59.760 was funny was that it said this movie is rated 0:08:00.160 --> 0:08:05.239 TV fourteen despite it being absolutely wall to wall, severed heads, 0:08:05.320 --> 0:08:08.720 gratuitous nudity and dripping blood all over the place. 0:08:09.200 --> 0:08:09.560 That's right. 0:08:09.680 --> 0:08:12.240 Maybe maybe that's like euro rating standards. I don't know. 0:08:13.160 --> 0:08:15.640 Maybe, so, yeah, this is not a film for the children. 0:08:16.440 --> 0:08:18.800 Though I have read that there is a quote unquote 0:08:18.840 --> 0:08:22.600 clothed cut of this, so they might have shot some 0:08:22.720 --> 0:08:26.640 alternate scenes in which various characters are clothed instead of 0:08:26.680 --> 0:08:29.480 in various states of nudy, but it would be an 0:08:29.600 --> 0:08:32.559 entirely different film that way, so I'm not sure I 0:08:32.559 --> 0:08:34.600 can recommend that even if you can find that cut. 0:08:34.760 --> 0:08:37.360 Another thing I will say about my experience of watching 0:08:37.400 --> 0:08:40.040 the Horror Rises from the Tomb is that it had 0:08:40.200 --> 0:08:42.880 two features which may seem at odds with each other, 0:08:42.960 --> 0:08:46.960 but we're both simultaneously true. One is that the plot 0:08:47.000 --> 0:08:49.160 is extremely simple. There are not a lot of like 0:08:49.240 --> 0:08:53.040 twist and turns and machinations. And at the same time, 0:08:53.960 --> 0:08:56.400 at least half of the scenes in this movie, I 0:08:56.440 --> 0:08:59.120 had no idea what was going on. By that, I mean, 0:08:59.200 --> 0:09:01.480 I could not tell you who some at least some 0:09:01.520 --> 0:09:05.000 of the characters on screen were, how they arrived at, 0:09:05.000 --> 0:09:07.880 what they're doing, why they're doing it, or what it means. 0:09:08.360 --> 0:09:10.319 Yeah, there were a few scenes in this where I 0:09:10.320 --> 0:09:13.480 think I watched them three times and then consulted a 0:09:13.480 --> 0:09:16.160 plot summary to figure out exactly what the characters were 0:09:16.280 --> 0:09:17.840 attempting to do. Uh huh. 0:09:17.920 --> 0:09:20.640 Yeah, I've had really in the first half, had a 0:09:20.679 --> 0:09:24.360 hard time keeping the different characters and their relationships straight. 0:09:24.480 --> 0:09:27.040 I did not know who was who until until the 0:09:27.440 --> 0:09:30.200 Warlock magic really starts happening in the second half. Then 0:09:30.240 --> 0:09:31.680 I guess it gets easier to follow. 0:09:32.280 --> 0:09:34.679 Yeah, I mean, ultimately, this is a movie about the 0:09:34.800 --> 0:09:39.360 ultimate occult power couple coming back from the dead to 0:09:39.559 --> 0:09:41.760 just tear it up. And so once they're back and 0:09:41.800 --> 0:09:45.640 in action, you're one hundred percent on board. You can 0:09:45.760 --> 0:09:47.839 you basically know where things are going and you can 0:09:47.920 --> 0:09:50.720 follow the chaos, but you have to get up to 0:09:50.760 --> 0:09:53.000 that point, and it can be a little confusing but 0:09:53.080 --> 0:09:54.800 never boring getting right. 0:09:55.120 --> 0:09:58.360 It's like the Sonny and Share of Satanism rise from 0:09:58.440 --> 0:10:01.080 the Grave in order to get rid of on the 0:10:01.360 --> 0:10:04.440 what the descendants of the inquisitors who put them to 0:10:04.480 --> 0:10:05.320 the sword. 0:10:05.520 --> 0:10:08.440 Yes, but also I think they they just want to 0:10:08.600 --> 0:10:12.440 consume human hearts, drink blood, worship Satan and so forth. 0:10:12.760 --> 0:10:15.400 Yeah, but in the parts where I had no idea 0:10:15.400 --> 0:10:18.120 what was going on. I think part of that is 0:10:18.320 --> 0:10:21.120 dialogue and dubbing, Like this movie did have that quality 0:10:21.120 --> 0:10:23.400 of I would literally be watching a scene with my 0:10:23.440 --> 0:10:25.920 full attention. I'm not on my phone, I'm not distracted, 0:10:26.200 --> 0:10:29.160 full attention. But then afterwards I could not summarize what 0:10:29.240 --> 0:10:32.640 anybody said in the scene. So there's a bit of that. 0:10:32.720 --> 0:10:34.679 But then another part I think that made it a 0:10:34.679 --> 0:10:39.160 little hard to follow is that the cinematography drifts more 0:10:39.200 --> 0:10:42.199 toward that dreamy style that you would see in like 0:10:42.280 --> 0:10:45.640 a full Chi movie, where I think often our brains 0:10:45.640 --> 0:10:48.319 are trained, we pick up on certain cues of how 0:10:48.360 --> 0:10:51.320 a scene looks and sounds, and like, ah, this feels 0:10:51.360 --> 0:10:53.600 more like a dream sequence. I don't need to pay 0:10:53.640 --> 0:10:56.559 close attention to the plot because it's you know, it's 0:10:56.679 --> 0:10:59.679 it's it's dreamy mode. Except this actually is just the 0:10:59.720 --> 0:11:01.640 phys reality of the narrative. 0:11:02.080 --> 0:11:04.440 The world of the living is a dream of the dead, 0:11:05.559 --> 0:11:07.640 which is probably not true, but that sounds like the 0:11:07.679 --> 0:11:09.640 logic you would hear in a seventies. 0:11:09.160 --> 0:11:11.480 Horror trailer, right, yes, yes. 0:11:11.600 --> 0:11:15.360 Yeah, I think when it comes to this movie's very memorable, 0:11:15.440 --> 0:11:18.000 I think, but there is in terms of like remembering lines, 0:11:18.400 --> 0:11:20.480 The most memorable lines for me are some of the 0:11:20.520 --> 0:11:25.400 dumb things that the painter character Maurice says are occult 0:11:25.480 --> 0:11:27.440 power couple. Here, they have plenty of times where they 0:11:27.520 --> 0:11:31.440 basically just say occult things, and while I don't recall 0:11:31.480 --> 0:11:34.079 the details, the feel of it resonates. So I'd say 0:11:34.080 --> 0:11:36.160 this is a movie that is more to be felt 0:11:36.160 --> 0:11:39.240 than comprehended. And again I had to go back and 0:11:39.240 --> 0:11:41.840 watch some things several times just to make sure I 0:11:41.960 --> 0:11:44.679 was understanding what they were doing. But to be clear, 0:11:45.800 --> 0:11:48.600 this film rocks. You should see it if you want 0:11:48.640 --> 0:11:51.319 to see it. If you're like, well, I I want 0:11:51.320 --> 0:11:52.719 to see this for myself before I get into the 0:11:52.760 --> 0:11:54.360 main episode, well let me tell you where you can 0:11:54.360 --> 0:11:58.439 get it. First of all, as far as physical media goes, 0:11:58.960 --> 0:12:03.840 Shout Factory as the Paul Nashy collection out on Blu 0:12:04.000 --> 0:12:08.079 Ray that has the films in it, Horror Rises from 0:12:08.080 --> 0:12:10.440 the Tomb, Vengeance of the Zombies, Blue Eyes of the 0:12:10.440 --> 0:12:14.240 Broken Doll, Night of the Werewolf, and Human Beasts. You 0:12:14.280 --> 0:12:17.680 can also pick up Horror Rises from the Tomb on DVD. 0:12:18.480 --> 0:12:22.080 I watched it on Prime, but it was not great 0:12:22.160 --> 0:12:25.640 quality and it was formatted for television. I think the 0:12:25.880 --> 0:12:30.160 version you watched was on tub It was letterbox edition. 0:12:30.679 --> 0:12:32.600 But of course you're gonna have ads that way, so 0:12:32.800 --> 0:12:34.560 you know, it depends how you want to play it. 0:12:34.679 --> 0:12:36.640 I ended up going back on Twoby and watching some 0:12:36.679 --> 0:12:39.160 of the scenes again that I needed to revisit. 0:12:39.559 --> 0:12:41.439 I mean, I'd say it's worth it just for the 0:12:41.520 --> 0:12:45.640 hilarious ad cutaways, but. 0:12:45.640 --> 0:12:47.800 Who knows how the machine's working there. It may pick 0:12:47.880 --> 0:12:51.280 up on something else with somebody else's experience, right, yeah, yeah, 0:12:51.320 --> 0:12:53.920 all right, Well the basic elevator pitch here is Yeah, 0:12:53.960 --> 0:12:56.520 I mean, Horror Rises from the Tomb. Don't worry if 0:12:56.520 --> 0:12:58.880 you watch this film, Horror will rise from the tomb. 0:12:59.160 --> 0:13:02.360 The ultimate occult power couple won't let death stand in 0:13:02.400 --> 0:13:02.800 their way. 0:13:03.120 --> 0:13:06.400 It's a tender love story about a warlock and his head. 0:13:07.760 --> 0:13:11.680 Boy meets girl. Boy loses head, boy regains head, boy 0:13:11.720 --> 0:13:14.000 gets revenge, Boy loses his head. 0:13:14.160 --> 0:13:17.160 Well, boy loses, boy loses his head, Boy loses girl, 0:13:18.000 --> 0:13:22.400 Boy regains head, Boy regains girl, Boy loses girl, boy 0:13:22.440 --> 0:13:24.400 loses his head. That's the full plots. 0:13:24.440 --> 0:13:27.400 Dinosaurs eat boy, woman inherits the Earth. 0:13:27.679 --> 0:13:30.679 Yeah. 0:13:32.200 --> 0:13:35.480 From the dark and Mysterious Middle Ages, full of mystery 0:13:35.520 --> 0:13:40.200 and violence. There now comes to the screen. Fear rises 0:13:40.200 --> 0:13:43.319 from the tomb, a curse which would bring these people 0:13:43.320 --> 0:13:48.920 to the most terrifying situations. Fear rises from the tomb 0:13:49.640 --> 0:13:54.400 with all the mystery and terror of medieval rights and witchcraft, 0:13:54.800 --> 0:14:00.480 the infernal powers of evil persecuting these defenseless bees. Beer 0:14:00.800 --> 0:14:07.199 rises from the Tomb. A pro film's production, directed by 0:14:07.320 --> 0:14:13.439 Carlos auded seven wombs of past today we shall take them. 0:14:13.840 --> 0:14:16.840 I want when the Supreme day comes, that they are 0:14:16.880 --> 0:14:22.720 sufficiently prepared for the sacrifice. 0:14:24.960 --> 0:14:27.200 All right, Well, let's talk a bit about the humans 0:14:27.240 --> 0:14:30.080 involved in this before we get back into the plot. So, 0:14:30.120 --> 0:14:33.240 as we mentioned already, Paul Nashi did not direct this. 0:14:33.960 --> 0:14:38.160 He was directed by Carlos Arid who lived nineteen thirty 0:14:38.160 --> 0:14:41.560 seven through two thousand and eight. He was a Spanish 0:14:41.560 --> 0:14:46.080 director of various erotic dramas and Paul Nashi horror films, 0:14:46.120 --> 0:14:48.680 including Curse of the Devil from seventy three, Blue Eyes 0:14:48.680 --> 0:14:51.120 of the Broken Doll from seventy four, and The Mummies 0:14:51.120 --> 0:14:54.360 Revenge from seventy five. As a producer, he helped bring 0:14:54.400 --> 0:14:58.240 the films Alien Predator from eighty six into. 0:14:58.040 --> 0:15:02.120 The blood, not alien versus predator, but not just alien 0:15:02.160 --> 0:15:03.520 predator alien predator. 0:15:04.480 --> 0:15:07.160 He also produced or was one of the producers on 0:15:07.440 --> 0:15:12.720 Claudio Fragaso of Troll two themes nineteen eighty four film 0:15:13.160 --> 0:15:15.760 Monster Dog starring Alice Cooper. What. 0:15:16.840 --> 0:15:18.640 I don't think I knew about that, or if I 0:15:18.680 --> 0:15:19.480 did it. 0:15:19.400 --> 0:15:22.240 I haven't seen it, but I've seen the posters and 0:15:22.240 --> 0:15:25.040 some stills from it. It looks it looks wonderfully awful. 0:15:25.400 --> 0:15:28.200 And as you might recall from our episode on trollto 0:15:28.240 --> 0:15:32.080 I mean, Claudio Fragaso took this very seriously, this filmmaking thing, 0:15:34.000 --> 0:15:36.640 and so he's exactly the sort of director you want 0:15:37.360 --> 0:15:40.200 directing a film called Monster Dog starring Alice Cooper. 0:15:40.480 --> 0:15:43.240 So if Troll two was a film about how he 0:15:43.320 --> 0:15:48.600 believed that meat eaters were being persecuted by vegetarians, what 0:15:48.760 --> 0:15:50.280 is the meaning of Monster Dog. 0:15:50.600 --> 0:15:53.080 I'm not sure, but if the poster is any indication 0:15:53.280 --> 0:15:58.200 he pursues this topic, this subject matter via some sort 0:15:58.240 --> 0:16:00.840 of like fleshless killer doberman gross. 0:16:01.080 --> 0:16:05.280 Yeah, all right, so that's the director technically, but I 0:16:05.720 --> 0:16:09.120 don't know. The vibe gives the pretty much top to bottom, 0:16:09.120 --> 0:16:10.840 this is the Paul Nashi show. 0:16:10.800 --> 0:16:11.640 That's right. 0:16:12.200 --> 0:16:13.400 So who is this guy? 0:16:13.760 --> 0:16:17.200 So Paul Nashi, Yeah, who has story and screenplay credits 0:16:17.200 --> 0:16:21.760 on this. He plays our Warlock character Alaric Dimarnac. He 0:16:21.840 --> 0:16:29.479 also plays this is complicated, but Alarach's traitor's brother, Armand Demarnac. 0:16:29.800 --> 0:16:36.320 And he also plays Armand's descendant, Hugo Demarnac in the present. 0:16:36.560 --> 0:16:40.000 So three different roles, and all of them have a 0:16:40.000 --> 0:16:40.960 different feel to them. 0:16:41.200 --> 0:16:44.520 Though. It's weird because his descendant character is not like 0:16:45.040 --> 0:16:48.520 the inheritor of the Warlock throne. He in fact, he 0:16:48.880 --> 0:16:51.800 basically just treats his own descendant as another enemy. 0:16:52.240 --> 0:16:57.760 Yeah. Yeah, and you know there's a to there. I 0:16:57.760 --> 0:16:59.320 feel like there's a different energy to Hugh. I mean 0:16:59.360 --> 0:17:02.600 Hugo the modern day Paul Nashy character in this Whitch, 0:17:02.680 --> 0:17:04.919 but I mean, I mean the nineteen seventies. You know, 0:17:04.960 --> 0:17:08.280 he's still kind of a stylish dude. But he's also 0:17:08.960 --> 0:17:12.120 I mean, he's doomed. He can't stand up to the Warlock. 0:17:12.400 --> 0:17:16.080 He's not like, I am the descendant of Alaric and 0:17:16.119 --> 0:17:18.399 therefore I'm the one who can defeat him. No, No, 0:17:18.520 --> 0:17:20.040 it's not going to go that way at all. 0:17:20.320 --> 0:17:22.840 Now. In fact, he's a doomed skeptic and he's the 0:17:22.880 --> 0:17:26.119 guy who like doesn't believe in the power of spirit mediums, 0:17:26.160 --> 0:17:28.240 so you know things are not going to end well 0:17:28.280 --> 0:17:31.760 for him. Movies like this do not reward people who 0:17:31.760 --> 0:17:35.760 don't believe in the supernatural, and so nash But also 0:17:35.760 --> 0:17:38.679 I would say about Nashi's character, this is not unique 0:17:38.720 --> 0:17:43.160 to him, but he is. This movie has multiple contemporary 0:17:43.240 --> 0:17:47.280 characters who are very much like turtleneck sweater tucked into 0:17:47.320 --> 0:17:48.240 pants guys. 0:17:48.800 --> 0:17:53.680 Yeah, yeah, and yeah. They just sort of wander into 0:17:53.680 --> 0:17:55.520 all this with They're like, yeah, let's have a seance 0:17:55.520 --> 0:17:58.359 that this old estate, let's call back. Let's see we 0:17:58.400 --> 0:18:00.800 can call the spirit of this dead warlock. That sounds 0:18:00.800 --> 0:18:02.680 like a good time. We'll have some wine, we'll smoke 0:18:02.720 --> 0:18:05.359 a little bit. What could possibly go wrong? 0:18:05.720 --> 0:18:10.000 I would say Paul Nashy's energy as an actor is 0:18:10.040 --> 0:18:14.000 a strange combination something I'm not really used to. In 0:18:14.119 --> 0:18:18.040 one sense, he has very traditional, almost kind of like 0:18:18.320 --> 0:18:24.399 boxy or rectangular masculine movie star energy. I'm trying to 0:18:24.400 --> 0:18:26.040 think of who to compare, you know, like a like 0:18:26.080 --> 0:18:29.800 a Ed Begley senior or something. But then on the 0:18:29.840 --> 0:18:33.560 other half, kind of a weirdo worminess that is almost 0:18:33.600 --> 0:18:35.000 the likes of Peter Lorie. 0:18:35.600 --> 0:18:41.200 Yeah, yeah, he has his His physicality is is interesting 0:18:41.240 --> 0:18:44.520 to behold. Yeah, because because on one level, I mean, 0:18:44.560 --> 0:18:48.080 he's he's clearly ripped, as we'll discuss he was. He's 0:18:48.080 --> 0:18:53.240 a former professional weightlifter. So so he's, uh, you know, 0:18:53.320 --> 0:18:56.359 he's quite a physical specimen. And yes he he but 0:18:56.440 --> 0:18:58.280 yet he can he does have this kind of wormy 0:18:58.359 --> 0:19:01.720 quality to him. He is a natural energy for playing 0:19:01.840 --> 0:19:05.800 this eternal outsider, this warlock that was beheaded in the 0:19:05.840 --> 0:19:09.840 past and now has to murder his way into being 0:19:09.880 --> 0:19:12.879 again in the present. So some of you might be wondering, well, 0:19:12.880 --> 0:19:14.960 who is Paul Nashi. We're talking about him. He sounds 0:19:15.000 --> 0:19:18.680 pretty great. Well, he is, in many people's words, the 0:19:18.800 --> 0:19:21.720 Lon Chaney junior of Spanish horror cinema. 0:19:21.800 --> 0:19:22.200 Wow. 0:19:22.480 --> 0:19:27.920 So he was born Jaquinto Molino, but he assumed the 0:19:28.000 --> 0:19:32.440 name Paul Nashi for acting. And yeah, he plays three 0:19:32.440 --> 0:19:36.200 separate characters in this film. Also wrote the screenplay. And 0:19:36.800 --> 0:19:39.040 this is a guy. We can't really appreciate the full 0:19:39.160 --> 0:19:41.920 richness of Paul Nashi in a single episode of Weird 0:19:41.920 --> 0:19:43.880 House Cinema, but I feel like this is a really 0:19:43.880 --> 0:19:46.320 fun film and a great introduction to him at least. 0:19:46.840 --> 0:19:48.919 So this is a guy who was born into a 0:19:48.920 --> 0:19:52.680 successful furrier's family during the Spanish Civil War, who then 0:19:52.760 --> 0:19:56.199 began to pursue a serious adult life of professional weightlifting 0:19:56.480 --> 0:20:01.360 and architecture, but deep down only wanted one thing. He 0:20:01.400 --> 0:20:05.520 wanted to be the wolf Man, The Wolfman, the Wolfman. Yeah. 0:20:05.560 --> 0:20:08.159 I mean, from what I've read, he grew up, you know, 0:20:08.200 --> 0:20:12.879 idolizing these old horror movies and especially the wolfman roles, 0:20:12.960 --> 0:20:17.400 the Lion Cheney Junior sort of roles, and fate would 0:20:17.440 --> 0:20:20.480 deliver him in that direction. So he started out in 0:20:20.560 --> 0:20:25.439 various uncredited and sometimes rumored roles in various nineteen sixties 0:20:25.800 --> 0:20:30.199 Spanish production stuff like El Sid an episode of the 0:20:30.240 --> 0:20:33.520 TV show I Spy. But then in nineteen sixty eight 0:20:33.760 --> 0:20:37.320 he wrote and starred in a film that was originally 0:20:37.320 --> 0:20:40.080 titled Mark of the Werewolf, but then on the American 0:20:40.119 --> 0:20:44.479 groundhouse circuit it had the name Frankenstein's Bloody Terror, in 0:20:44.520 --> 0:20:49.959 which he played werewolf of Valdemar Daninski for the first 0:20:50.040 --> 0:20:51.760 of many, many times. 0:20:52.119 --> 0:20:54.840 So this was a franchise, Yeah, yeah. 0:20:54.520 --> 0:20:57.080 He did. I think it's like a dozen of these, 0:20:58.000 --> 0:21:01.359 with titles like Assignment Terere Wolf versus The Vampire Woman, 0:21:01.400 --> 0:21:04.440 The Fury of the Wolf Man, Doctor Jackal versus The Werewolf, 0:21:04.600 --> 0:21:06.880 Curse of the Devil, Night of the Howling Beast, Night 0:21:06.920 --> 0:21:09.639 of the Werewolf, the Beast and the Magic Sword, Howl 0:21:09.680 --> 0:21:14.879 of the Devil, like Cantripus, The Moonlight Murders, and Tomb 0:21:14.920 --> 0:21:17.600 of the Werewolf. Most of these films are from the 0:21:17.600 --> 0:21:21.440 seventies and eighties, but they ultimately span five decades, and 0:21:21.560 --> 0:21:25.480 they're not a continuous narrative by any means, with the 0:21:25.520 --> 0:21:29.560 plots varying wildly, like there's somewhere he goes to Asia 0:21:29.600 --> 0:21:31.919 and like goes to Tibet and Japan to try and 0:21:32.440 --> 0:21:38.280 treat his lacanthropy. But a number of them look phenomenal 0:21:38.280 --> 0:21:41.040 and they're just total werewolf features. 0:21:41.280 --> 0:21:43.919 Well, I feel like this sheds new light on a 0:21:43.960 --> 0:21:47.000 major flub in the movie that really seems like it 0:21:47.000 --> 0:21:49.520 should have been caught, which is that in the English dub, 0:21:49.520 --> 0:21:52.480 at least, there's one part where they try to say 0:21:52.480 --> 0:21:56.400 the word lichen thropes, but instead they say I think 0:21:56.600 --> 0:21:59.480 lincoln thropes, like President Lincoln. 0:22:00.119 --> 0:22:03.280 Yeah, yeah, I noticed that that was I actually went 0:22:03.400 --> 0:22:06.800